1 Sjiggajon van Dawid wat hy tot eer van die HERE gesing het weens die woorde van Kus, die Benjaminiet.
2 HERE, my God, by U skuil ek; verlos my van al my vervolgers en red my;
3 sodat hy nie soos 'n leeu my verskeur en wegruk sonder dat iemand red nie.
4 HERE, my God, as ek dit gedoen het, as daar onreg in my hande is,
5 as ek hom kwaad aangedoen het wat in vrede met my geleef het ja, ek het hom gered wat my sonder oorsaak vyandig was,
6 mag die vyand my dan vervolg en inhaal en my lewe teen die grond vertrap en my eer in die stof laat woon. Sela.
7 Staan op, HERE, in u toorn, verhef U teen die grimmigheid van my teëstanders en ontwaak vir my, U wat die reg beveel het!
8 En laat die vergadering van die volke U omring; keer dan bo hulle terug in die hoogte!
9 Die HERE oordeel die volke. Doen aan my reg, HERE, na my geregtigheid en na my onskuld wat by my is.
10 Laat tog die boosheid van die goddelose mense 'n einde neem, maar bevestig U die regverdige, ja, U wat harte en niere toets, o regverdige God!
11 My skild is by God wat die opregtes van hart verlos.
12 God is 'n regverdige regter, en 'n God wat elke dag toornig is.
13 As hy hom nie bekeer nie, maak Hy sy swaard skerp; Hy span sy boog en mik daarmee
14 en berei vir hom dodelike werktuie; Hy maak sy pyle brandende wapens.
15 Kyk, hy is in barensweë van onreg en is swanger van moeite; hy baar leuens.
16 Hy het 'n kuil gegrawe en dit uitgehol; maar hy het geval in die vangkuil wat hy gemaak het.
17 Die onheil wat hy gestig het, keer op sy hoof terug, en sy geweld kom op sy skedel neer. [ (Psalms 7:18) Ek wil die HERE loof na sy geregtigheid en die Naam van die HERE, die Allerhoogste, psalmsing. ]
1 O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge:
Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me,
2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion,
Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this;
If there be iniquity in my hands;
4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me
(Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)
5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;
Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth,
And lay my glory in the dust. [Selah
6 Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger;
Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries,
And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.
7 And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee about;
And over them return thou on high.
8 Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples:
Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me.
9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous:
For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.
10 My shield is with God,
Who saveth the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
Yea, a God that hath indignation every day.
12 If a man turn not, he will whet his sword;
He hath bent his bow, and made it ready;
13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death;
He maketh his arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity;
Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
15 He hath made a pit, and digged it,
And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
16 His mischief shall return upon his own head,
And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
17 I will give thanks unto Jehovah according to his righteousness,
And will sing praise to the name of Jehovah Most High.